Here are some ways in which we can use new and innovative Web 2.0 Tools to get our students excited about reading. I have included the sites and examples. Feel free to add anything that you have come across or used with your own students.
Book trailers using flip cameras and Windows MovieMaker:
Students can create a slide show, using slide share telling the story of the book they read using only images. VoiceThread could be used to tell a digital story.
Book trailers using flip cameras and Windows MovieMaker:
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www.comiqs.com
This site will you and your students to create comic strips. We can use them to depict what they had read.
Here is an example:
The Peak, by Roland Smith from voelkerc on Comiqs
www.goanimate.com
We can make animation recreations!
Here is an example:
www.xtimeline.com
We create a timeline of the events that happened in the book.
Here is an example:
www.glogster.com
We can make posters...
Students can create a slide show, using slide share telling the story of the book they read using only images.
VoiceThread could be used to tell a digital story.
Booktalk and Book review podcast examples:
http://www.hopkintonschools.org/hhs/library/podcasts/Runaway.mp3
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2007/04/27/28bookupdate.mp3
http://www.alan-ya.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/litcast1.mp3
Author Blogs:
Students could read their author's blog and comment....
Sarah Dessen: http://writergrl.livejournal.com/
Meg Cabot: http://www.megcabot.com/diary/
Our incentive program could be an individual or class battle.
We could include a poll on our wiki and students could vote on their favorite creation.